Word: booting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cathedral in the Plaza de Armas; the old Lima bull ring, built in 1765, is said by Limeños to be the world's oldest. But never has Lima known a fighter like its own Conchita Cintron, the world's greatest female torero and mistress, to boot, of the art of rejoneo (bullfighting with a short spear from horseback...
...True Knowledge appealed to the union rank & file. But only 20 of the 3,100 longshoremen who gathered to hear his case felt that he should be allowed to keep his card. Then the union went further. It set out to cancel his registration as a longshoreman, and thus boot him off the waterfront for good...
When an almost oppressively sophisticated writer turns out so highfalutin a play, there may well be method, even if there is no meaning, in his claptrap. Very possibly Cocteau meant to polish up a lot of passe heroics into a rococo extravaganza that would be lively theater to boot. And very possibly The Eagle Has Two Heads is full of brilliant rhetoric, in French. But on Broadway it is just a grimly gaudy bore. Nor, for all her fire and force, can Actress Bankhead act it the one way that might be effective-with high artifice, in the immensely grand...
...Rockets Hail. Six thousand miles away from Oahu, amphibious tactics were being dusted off for the benefit of boot sailors and marines. Against the uninhabited part of Culebra Island, near Puerto Rico, the Missouri fired one-ton shells from its 16-inch rifles, and landing craft loosed a hail of rockets. Marine Corps planes strafed the beach when 5,000 leathernecks "storming" it called...
...having a baby, but Manhattan's Lane Bryant store is so famed for its maternity clothes that a visit there almost automatically lands a woman in Winchell's column. Actually, Lane Bryant, Inc., which has 22 other retail shops and a big mail-order plant to boot, does 95% of its $41 million annual business in non-maternity wear. Its chief stock-in-trade is the legitimate offspring of its maternity wear: clothes for fat women...